3 Dads Walking’, as the trio is now known, aims to smash the stigma around suicide, and raise money for the national charity PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide.
Mike explains how they’d hoped to raise around £3,000 each but surpassed this spectacularly, so far managing to raise more than £800,000.
They have attracted donations from Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and footballer Lou Macari, whose own son Jonathan died by suicide in 1999.
Thanks to this cash, PAPYRUS’ Hopeline UK will begin run 2424-hours a day later this year. Mike believes that had Beth known about the helpline, she may still be here. ‘One of the biggest dangers to our young people is themselves because suicide is the biggest killer of under 35s in the UK.
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